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i68 FRESCOES OF OLIVE-TREES, IN SLIGHT RELIEF
Olive-
trees of
back-
ground.
are alternately of green, red, and black, in a few cases white, a naturalistic
reflection of the varying hues visible in the foliage of olive-trees, of which
we already find examples in
early M. M. Ill wall-paint-
ings.1 An exquisite specimen
from a basement behind the
Stepped Porch is here re-
peated in Fig. 111.
This variation in tint
appears indeed still earlier
on a fragment of M. M. II b
polychrome pottery here re-
produced in Fig. 112.2 Here,
too, we have similar asterisk-
like flowers. This long ar-
tistic tradition of reproducing
the seasonal variations of
olive foliage finds a more
distant sequel in a fragment
of wall-painting recently dis-
covered at Tell-el-Amarna 3 Fia m- Fragment of m- m- m Fresco from
' Basement near Stepped Portico, showing Olive
which supplies a very definite Sprays with Red, White, and Black Leaves.
proof of Egyptian indebted-
ness. In the fresco before us the flowers depicted facing, like white asterisks,
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square section. The
upper piece is 21 cm.
wide by 21-4 high ; the
lower 27 cm. wide by
31-5 cm. high. The two
pieces together, which
only show the tops of the
branches, are 52-9 cm.
1 P. of M., i, p. 536,
Fig. 389. Dr. Roden-
waldt {Tiryns, ii, p. 195)
also appositely compares
the style of the olive
sprays with that of the plants on the Hagia rendering of olive-trees with dark green and
Triada frescoes. grey leaves. The fragments are now in the
2 See ibid., p. 263, and Fig. 194, ,§-. Ashmolean Museum.
3 The design seems to be a conventional
Fig. 112. Fragment of M. M. II b Polychrome Pottery from
Palace Site, Knossos, showing Red and White Olive Sprays.
Olive-
trees of
back-
ground.
are alternately of green, red, and black, in a few cases white, a naturalistic
reflection of the varying hues visible in the foliage of olive-trees, of which
we already find examples in
early M. M. Ill wall-paint-
ings.1 An exquisite specimen
from a basement behind the
Stepped Porch is here re-
peated in Fig. 111.
This variation in tint
appears indeed still earlier
on a fragment of M. M. II b
polychrome pottery here re-
produced in Fig. 112.2 Here,
too, we have similar asterisk-
like flowers. This long ar-
tistic tradition of reproducing
the seasonal variations of
olive foliage finds a more
distant sequel in a fragment
of wall-painting recently dis-
covered at Tell-el-Amarna 3 Fia m- Fragment of m- m- m Fresco from
' Basement near Stepped Portico, showing Olive
which supplies a very definite Sprays with Red, White, and Black Leaves.
proof of Egyptian indebted-
ness. In the fresco before us the flowers depicted facing, like white asterisks,
. : ■ .. ■
::■■:'.: ■ih-i'w-. ,■„;.,
£ A ••• ^^
•ntfg •*•*: 4.....if m*J&
jZ ^
V^^djtg£*t&K/^'
square section. The
upper piece is 21 cm.
wide by 21-4 high ; the
lower 27 cm. wide by
31-5 cm. high. The two
pieces together, which
only show the tops of the
branches, are 52-9 cm.
1 P. of M., i, p. 536,
Fig. 389. Dr. Roden-
waldt {Tiryns, ii, p. 195)
also appositely compares
the style of the olive
sprays with that of the plants on the Hagia rendering of olive-trees with dark green and
Triada frescoes. grey leaves. The fragments are now in the
2 See ibid., p. 263, and Fig. 194, ,§-. Ashmolean Museum.
3 The design seems to be a conventional
Fig. 112. Fragment of M. M. II b Polychrome Pottery from
Palace Site, Knossos, showing Red and White Olive Sprays.